What a difference an invasion makes as EU leaders gathered for an emergency summit in the Paris suburb of Versailles, gone were the dissenting voices willing to cozy up to the Kremlin. From the far-right to the far left, the excuses of 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea have gone silent. 

Wednesday's shelling of a children's hospital in Mariupol a reminder that the West has seen this movie before in Chechnya and Syria. Are chemical weapons next? If so, what are the EU's red lines? Like NATO, the European Union upping assistance to Ukraine while so far shying away from putting boots on the ground. The 27 still hope unprecedented sanctions will suffice alongside ever-increasing armament. 

Enter the limits of European solidarity: for its defence, the bloc remains dependent on US might for its energy on Russian oil and natural gas. Could this war prove a turning point?

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